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"5 Days in August" – How London Local Authorities used Twitter during the 2011 riots
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2012This study examines effects of microblogging communications during emergency events based on the case of the summer 2011 riots in London. During five days in August 2011, parts of London and other major cities in England suffered from extensive public disorders, violence and even loss of human lives. We collected and analysed the tweets posted by the official accounts maintained by 28 London local government authorities. Those authorities used Twitter for a variety of purposes such as preventing rumours, providing official information, promoting legal actions against offenders and organising post-riot community engagement activities. The study shows how the immediacy and communicative power of microblogging can have a significant effect at the response and recovery stages of emergency events
Visualization of dynamics using local dynamic modelling with self organizing maps
In this work, we describe a procedure to visualize nonlinear process dynamics using a self-organizing map based local model dynamical estimator. The proposed method exploits the topology preserving nature of the resulting estimator to extract visualizations (planes) of insightful dynamical features, that allow to explore nonlinear systems whose behavior changes with the operating point. Since the visualizations are obtained from a dynamical model of the process, measures on the goodness of this estimator (such as RMSE or AIC) are also applicable as a measure of the trustfulness of the visualizations. To illustrate the application of the proposed method, an experiment to analyze the dynamics of a nonlinear system on different operating points is include
Fragmentation Functions for Lepton Pairs
We calculate the fragmentation function for a light quark to decay into a
lepton pair to leading order in the QCD coupling constant. In the formal
definition of the fragmentation function, a QED phase must be included in the
eikonal factor to guarantee QED gauge invariance. We find that the longitudinal
polarization fraction is a decreasing function of the factorization scale, in
accord with the intuitive expectation that the virtual photon should behave
more and more like a real photon as the transverse momomentum of the
fragmenting quark increases.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, normalization corrected, text abbreviate
Generalised Elliptic Functions
We consider multiply periodic functions, sometimes called Abelian functions,
defined with respect to the period matrices associated with classes of
algebraic curves. We realise them as generalisations of the Weierstras
P-function using two different approaches. These functions arise naturally as
solutions to some of the important equations of mathematical physics and their
differential equations, addition formulae, and applications have all been
recent topics of study.
The first approach discussed sees the functions defined as logarithmic
derivatives of the sigma-function, a modified Riemann theta-function. We can
make use of known properties of the sigma function to derive power series
expansions and in turn the properties mentioned above. This approach has been
extended to a wide range of non hyperelliptic and higher genus curves and an
overview of recent results is given.
The second approach defines the functions algebraically, after first
modifying the curve into its equivariant form. This approach allows the use of
representation theory to derive a range of results at lower computational cost.
We discuss the development of this theory for hyperelliptic curves and how it
may be extended in the future.Comment: 16 page
Noncommutative brane-world, (Anti) de Sitter vacua and extra dimensions
We investigate a curved brane-world, inspired by a noncommutative D3-brane,
in a type IIB string theory. We obtain, an axially symmetric and a spherically
symmetric, (anti) de Sitter black holes in 4D. The event horizons of these
black holes possess a constant curvature and may be seen to be governed by
different topologies. The extremal geometries are explored, using the
noncommutative scaling in the theory, to reassure the attractor behavior at the
black hole event horizon. The emerging two dimensional, semi-classical, black
hole is analyzed to provide evidence for the extra dimensions in a curved
brane-world. It is argued that the gauge nonlinearity in the theory may be
redefined by a potential in a moduli space. As a result, D=11 and D=12
dimensional geometries may be obtained at the stable extrema of the potential.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figur
Decay and Right-handed Top-bottom Charged Current
We introduce an anomalous top quark coupling (right-handed current) into
Standard Model Lagrangian. Based on this, a more complete calculation of decay including leading log QCD corrections from to
in addition to corrections from to is given. The inclusive decay
rate is found to be suppressed comparing with the case without QCD running from
to except at the time of small values of . e.g. when
, it is only of the value given before. As
goes smaller, this contribution is an enhancement like standard model case.
From the newly experiment of CLEO Collaboration, strict restrictions to
parameters of this top-bottom quark coupling are found.Comment: 20 Pages, 2 figures( ps file uuencoded)
Testing J/psi Production and Decay Properties in Hadronic Collisions
The polar and azimuthal angular distributions for the lepton pair arising
from the decay of a J/psi meson produced at transverse momentum p_T balanced by
a photon [or gluon] in hadronic collisions are calculated in the color singlet
model (CSM). It is shown that the general structure of the decay lepton
distribution is controlled by four invariant structure functions, which are
functions of the transverse momentum and the rapidity of the J/psi. We found
that two of these structure functions [the longitudinal and transverse
interference structure functions] are identical in the CSM. Analytical and
numerical results are given in the Collins-Soper and in the Gottfried-Jackson
frame. We present a Monte Carlo study of the effect of acceptance cuts applied
to the leptons and the photon for J/psi+ gamma production at the Tevatron.Comment: 22 pages (LaTeX) plus 11 postscript figures, MAD/PH/822, YUMS94-11.
Figures are available from the authors or as a compressed tar file via
anonymous ftp at phenom.physics.wisc.edu in directory
{}~pub/preprints/madph-94-822-figs.tar.
Non--decoupling, triviality and the parameter
The dependence of the parameter on the mass of the Higgs scalar and
the top quark is computed non--perturbatively using the expansion in
the standard model. We find an explicit expression for the parameter
that requires the presence of a physical cutoff. This should come as no
surprise since the theory is presumably trivial. By taking this cutoff into
account, we find that the parameter can take values only within a
limited range and has finite ambiguities that are suppressed by inverse powers
of the cutoff scale, the so called ``scaling--violations". We find that large
deviations from the perturbative results are possible, but only when the cutoff
effects are also large.Comment: 16pp, Figures NOT included, harvmac, minor modifications incl.
wording, refs., UCLA/92/TEP/23,OHSTPY-HEP-T-92-00
Ultrafast carrier relaxation in GaN, In_(0.05)Ga_(0.95)N and an In_(0.05)Ga_(0.95)/In_(0.15)Ga_(0.85)N Multiple Quantum Well
Room temperature, wavelength non-degenerate ultrafast pump/probe measurements
were performed on GaN and InGaN epilayers and an InGaN multiple quantum well
structure. Carrier relaxation dynamics were investigated as a function of
excitation wavelength and intensity. Spectrally-resolved sub-picosecond
relaxation due to carrier redistribution and QW capture was found to depend
sensitively on the wavelength of pump excitation. Moreover, for pump
intensities above a threshold of 100 microJ/cm2, all samples demonstrated an
additional emission feature arising from stimulated emission (SE). SE is
evidenced as accelerated relaxation (< 10 ps) in the pump-probe data,
fundamentally altering the re-distribution of carriers. Once SE and carrier
redistribution is completed, a slower relaxation of up to 1 ns for GaN and
InGaN epilayers, and 660 ps for the MQW sample, indicates carrier recombination
through spontaneous emission.Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev.
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